Chile

Can’t wait to get to Chile? Before you leave, check out the advice, stories and tips I can offer after my March 2011 trip there, which saw me visit the capital city of Santiago, the coastal port of Valparaíso and the desert town of San Pedro de Atacama.

A sprawling metropolis nestled between the Andes Mountains to the east and less than an hour from the Pacific Ocean which sits to its west, Santiago’s urban landscape is as diverse and grand in scale as the scenery that surrounds it.